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Quotes About Flatters

We do not dispute what is magical or irrational when it flatters our self-esteem.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
He wears woe as others wear velvet; sorrow flatters him like the light of candles; tears become him like jewels.
~ Anne Rice
Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
~ George Bernard Shaw
dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters a desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic
~ George Eliot
gloomy, pensive, discontented temper This melancholy flatters, but unmans you; What is it else but penury of soul, A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind? —JOHN DRYDEN AT
~ Henry Hitchings